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Veteran - Gavin Smith
SUMMARY:Three hundred years in our future, in a world of alien infiltrators, religious hackers, a vast convoying nation of Nomads, city sized orbital elevators, and a cyborg... -
Up in the Air - Walter Kirn
SUMMARY: Ryan Bingham’s job as a Career Transition Counselor–he fires people–has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love ... -
Up & Out - Ariella Papa
FromRebecca Cole thought she was on track. As the creator and producer of the children's television show Esme's Enlightenments, she was following her dream and plotting new a... -
Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett
SUMMARY: Discworld lives on. In this latest novel, Terry Pratchett delivers the trademark insight and humor readers the world over have come to expect from the purely funniest Engl... -
Union Atlantic - Adam Haslett
SUMMARY: The eagerly anticipated debut novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not a Stranger Here: a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age, the f... -
Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad
SUMMARY: Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topical moral issues such as... -
Uncharted territory - Connie Willis
From Publishers WeeklyWillis's short novel could hardly be more different from her last, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book , which dealt with a time-travelling jaunt ... -
Un Lun Dun - China Mieville
From School Library JournalStarred Review. Grade 5–9—In present-day London, strange things start happening around Zanna: dogs stop to stare at her, birds circle her head. Then, sh.... -
Two caravans - Marina Lewycka
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the idyll of the English countryside, on a beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field, and around their two caravans, a little group of strawberry pickers is g... -
Two Trains Running - Andrew H. Vachss
SUMMARY: In his most original and compelling book yet, Andrew Vachss presents an electrifying tale of corruption in a devastated mill town. It is 1959--a moment in history when the...